Ahh.

You know the feeling you get when you clean out your closet? Like really purge it?

That’s what it feels like to thin and weed 66-square feet of garden.

[insert blissful sigh]

I wonder if I should really call it “thinning and weeding.” The square-foot method of gardening (a la Mel Bartholomew fame) is all about minimizing the thinning and weeding. It’s gardening for dummies. It’s gardening for lazy dummies.

Of course I’m not really all that lazy, but I am a little skeptical about this whole “plant it and they will sprout” thing. That’s why I planted 10-12 seeds in every hole, as opposed to the 2-3 that … Read More

Ah. To pick something from the garden and eat it. Indescribable.

Let me include a recipe instead:

Tomato (these aren’t ready yet), Basil, and Mozzarella Sandwiches
Ingredients:

• Bread from a bakery (The best bread you can get your hands on! Seriously, the bread makes this meal. The Whole Foods on Kirby in Houston has a wonderful bread–kind of hidden in the deli section–ciabatta soaked in olive oil and sprinkled with dried rosemary. At the very least, please make sure the bread doesn’t have high fructose corn-syrup, okay?)
• Basil (preferably out of the garden)
• Tomatoes (also, preferably out of the garden)
• Real mozzarella (the balls that come in a plastic tub

So perhaps I should keep track of all the ways in which I deviate from Mel’s recommendations (of All New Square Foot Gardening fame). He is, after all, a gardening guru, and I should pretty much follow his advice to a tee. But that is oh-so hard for me to do. Stubborn Sara.

By keeping track of the deviations, we’ll be able to wax more empirical as things start to work and other things don’t. Come to think of it, we should also keep track of all the ways in which we go against the advice of the Plant Doctor. She sits at her own desk, surrounded by reference books, … Read More